BP Tx City Shuts FCC for Day – Update

[Charles Randall]

BP Shuts Texas City Refinery Gasoline Unit for a Day (Update1)
2008-04-25 02:13 (New York)

By Sophie Tan
     April 25 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc is shutting a gasoline-
making unit starting today at its Texas City refinery, the
third-biggest in the U.S., for routine maintenance, the company
said in a statement to state regulators.
     The refiner will shut a fluid catalytic cracker unit, known
as FCCU 1, at 7 a.m. local time until the same time the next day,
the company said. BP didn’t state the capacity of the unit in
the statement.
     The refinery has a crude oil processing capacity of 475,000
barrels a day, according to U.S. Energy Department data. A fluid
catalytic cracker turns vacuum gasoil into gasoline and other
lighter fuels.

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–Editors: Nesa Subrahmaniyan, Amit Prakash.

To contact the reporter on the story:
Sophie Tan in Singapore at +65-6212-1162 or
sophietan@bloomberg.net

[Anonymous]

Looks like Tx City FCC is back on today:

BP Is Starting Gasoline Unit at Texas City, Texas, Refinery
2008-05-19 15:08 (New York)
By Robert Tuttle
     May 19 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc, Europe’s second-largest oil
company by market value, is starting up a gasoline-producing
fluid catalytic cracker at its Texas City, Texas, refinery, a
person familiar with the plant’s operations said.
     The unit, which was shut April 25 for repairs, is returning
to operation as another gasoline-making device called an
alkylation unit is being ramped up to full output, said the
person, who declined to be named. The alkylation unit was
started last week.
     The 475,000 barrel-a-day Texas City plant, BP’s largest in
the U.S., has been running at reduced capacity since an
explosion and hurricane damaged the refinery in 2005. In March,
the company returned a crude distillation unit to service at the
plant, the last big step in restoring normal production.

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